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Received — 24 June 2026 ⏭

Interior Department Moves to Relax Rules for Drilling on Public Lands

✇NYT - Energy & Environment
By: Maxine Joselow
22 June 2026 at 19:33
A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

One proposal would lower the cost of the bonds that fossil fuel companies must pay the Interior Department before they start drilling or mining on public lands.

This zinc mine needed a truck no one made, so they made it themselves

✇Electrek
By: Jo Borrás
21 June 2026 at 22:57

Zijin Mining couldn’t find an ultra-class electric haul truck that could get the job done at its Wulagen mine in Wuqia County, Xinjiang, so they designed their own: a 140-ton BEV haul truck with a huge, 770 kWh swappable battery pack.

Then they built 290 of them. (!)

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